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Karl Hauptmann
«The Feldberg Painter»
24th April 1880 – 7th April 1947
Karl Hauptmann was born on 25th of April in 1880 in Freiburg i.Br., Germany. He received his artistic training in Nürnberg and Munich and was thereafter engaged as a decorative painter.
In 1908 he produced the first of what were to be his typical Black Forest paintings. In the years between 1915 and 1919, he produced numerous images of the Alpine region he had visited during his deployment with the mountain infantry in the First World War.
In 1918 Karl Hauptmann purchased «Molerhüsli», which for him encompassed his dwelling, atelier, and exhibition space. It soon became a favourite meeting place for skiers, hikers, students, and visitors to Feldberg.
Due to Hauptmann’s ever-present health problems, his doctor prescribed a trip to Italy in 1940, to which he again travelled the following year.
On 7th of April in 1947, Karl Hauptmann died at the age of 67 at his «Molerhüsli».
Lit.: Exhibition Catalogue, Feldberg, 1993.
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Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Wagner, Günter
Born 1955 Karlsruhe, lives and works in Bruchsal.
«Labyrinth-Findlinge (labyrinth-boulders)».
Ensemble of four natural stones with drilled labyrinth drawing, two specimens of red sandstone, one each of grey and white granite. Verso respectively laterally monogrammed each.
H 10,5
No less than four labyrinth boulders invite the viewer to identify the main paths with sharpened senses as well as powers of observation and not to be led astray. The labyrinths are filigree engraved in erratic boulders from the Murg Valley and thus create a connection between nature as the creator of the pebbles, which have been rounded by water and friction over endless times, and the artist, who inscribes a meandering search game on them with precise mathematical calculation. Since 2006, Wagner has devoted himself to the thematic complex of labyrinths, which he approaches in different ways. The boulders, offered here as an ensemble, are each unique, intended for wall mounting and can also stand on their own.
Provenance: studio of the artist.
Exhibition: Günter Wagner «Labyrinthe», Ulm, Galerie im Kornhauskeller der Ulmer Kunststiftung Pro Arte, 14.05. - 23.07.2021.
Literature: Kunstverein Krefeld (Ed.), Günter Wagner, Labyrinthe, Krefeld/Karlsruhe 2010, p. 37 (cf.).
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